2007-12-29, 00:40
Gamester17 Wrote:The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned corporation (owned by the British goverment) so it should really be DRM free and support open standards.I know who the Beeb are, Gamester - I've lived here for 27 years, and I've payed enough license fees to know who funds them!
We have the same here in Sweden with SVT and SR (Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio) who broadcast the channels for free (well, free is relative since it is paid for by our taxes), and without commersials as a public service broadcaster.
The BBC is, per its charter, to be "free from both political and commercial influence and answers only to its viewers and listeners"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
PS! I am Swedish and live in Sweden now but I have lived and worked in the United Kingdom for 6-years before.
You probably haven't followed the iPlayer story, but the BBC have pretty much had to have what's in their charter pointed out to them. The fact that the "real" iPlayer is a Windows-only DRM-only affair and that they've lifted people directly from MS in order to work on it ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/14/..._billings/ ) is pretty disgusting to be honest.
Hence the earlier comment.